Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified a group of progenitor cells in the inner ear that can become the sensory hair cells and adjacent supporting cells that enable hearing.
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Record-breaking attendance highlighted the 2013 Annual Business Summit of the Elite Hearing Network. Held in February in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, the summit attracted nearly 1,000 individuals.
Read Moren a recent Japanese meta-analysis published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, researchers found that people with diabetes were 2.15 times as likely as those without the disease to have hearing loss.
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A gene associated with both noise-induced and age-related hearing loss has been identified by an international team of researchers funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD).
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Mutation in a genetic protein prevents hearing, reports a Tel Aviv University researcher.
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Jerome A. Roth, PhD, professor of pharmacology and toxicology at State University of New York at Buffalo (UB), will use a 4-year, $2 million grant to study hearing loss resulting from long-term exposure to manganese and noise.
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The new study demonstrates that hearing loss is independently associated with accelerated cognitive decline and incident cognitive impairment in community-dwelling older adults.
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University at Buffalo (UB) scientists have received a $1.5 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to develop a vaccine against recurrent ear infections.
Read MoreIn honor of the recent passing of Dr William House, who implanted the first pediatric cochlear implant into a child named Casey in 1980, HR shares the following video and obituary from the House Research Institute.
Read MorePatients with diabetes have a significantly higher prevalence of hearing impairment than patients without diabetes, according to a study to be published in <i>The Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM)</i>.
Read MoreScientists from The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital say that eliminating a particular bacteria’s DNA and boosting certain antimicrobial proteins may help prevent middle ear infections from reoccurring.
Read MoreResearchers at the University of South Florida (USF), House Ear Institute, and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at the Rochester Institute of Technology have identified a genetic biomarker for age-related hearing loss.
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A look at the new International Hearing Care Technician Training Certificate for extending worldwide hearing care.
Read MoreResearchers at the University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center have found a new genetic mutation responsible for deafness and hearing loss associated with Usher syndrome type 1. The discovery was recently published in
Read MoreIt has long been known that stereocilia move sideways back and forth in a wave-like motion when stimulated by a sound wave. After designing a microscope to observe these movements, a research team at Karolinska Institutet (KI) in Stockholm, Sweden, has discovered that the hairs not only move sideways but also change in length.
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